Marc Raibert, founder and president of Dynamics of Bostongave the world a menagerie of machines with two and four legs capable of jaws parkourinfectious dance routinesand industry stack.
Raibert now seeks to direct a revolution in the intelligence of robots as well as acrobatics. And he says that recent advances in automatic learning have accelerated the ability of its robots to learn to make difficult movements without human help. “Hope is that we will be able to produce a lot of behavior without having to make an arbitrariness of everything that robots do,” Raibert recently told me.
Boston Dynamics may have pioneered leg robots, but it is now part of a crowded package of companies offering robot dogs and humanoids. Only this week, a startup called Figure showed a New humanoid called helix, which can apparently unload the grocery stores. Another company, X1, has shown a muscular air humanoid called Neo Gamma make chores around the house. A third, Apptronik, said that he was planning to scalm manufacturing of his humanoid, called Apollo. Demos can be misleading, however. In addition, few companies disclose how much their humanoids cost, and it is not clear how many of them really expect to sell them as aiders.
The real test for these robots will be how they can do independently of human programming and direct control. And it will depend on progress like those that Raibert vante. Last November, I wrote on efforts to create completely new types of models To control the robots. If this work begins to bear fruit, we can see the humanoids and quadrupeds advance faster.
Boston Dynamics sells a four -legged robot called Place which is used on oil platforms, construction sites and other places where the wheels fight with the land. The company also makes a humanoid called Atlas for research. Raibert says that the dynamics of Boston used a artificial intelligence technique Called strengthening learning to upgrade the capacity of spot to run, so that it moves three times faster. The same method also helps Atlas to walk more with confidence, says Raibert.
